From this point, you enter the Nature Reserve on the north-eastern slopes of Monte Nero (508 m), a modest but impassable hill behind the famous Villa di Ulignano. It opens up like a sudden wooded island with glimpses of rocky environments among the vast agricultural areas of the surrounding gentle hills, typical of the Tuscan landscape: the area is recognised by Europe as a Special Area of Conservation. The vegetation of the relief is characterised by evergreen woods – dominated by holm-oaks – and conifer reforestations, peculiar environments linked to the outcropping of basaltic lava rocks and wet woods with hop hornbeam, laburnum and many ferns.
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